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The space without the enclosure was occupied by a double line of carts, waggons, light carriages, and ox sleds, while the animals undivested of their harness were browsing peacefully among the trees.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

Ah! that was the bush, undivested of romance—hard, brutal, vindictive, in spite of the mocking verdure of her honeymoon spring....

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.

Grim Alcatraz, girdled with bristling armaments, scintillating in the sun, suggested the presence of some monster leviathan, emerging from the deep, still undivested of gems, from his submarine home.

From The California Birthday Book by Various